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A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

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The Mr. absent, and the house dead.
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Absent Dead House
He that will be surety, shall pay.
GEORGE HERBERT

Pay People Surety
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv’n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
GEORGE HERBERT

Body Pain Wine
It’s not good fishing before the net.
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Catch Fish Good Net
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
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Folly Grief House
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
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Fortune Great Misfortune
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
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Mean Sky Success
The scalded head feares cold water.
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Cold Fear Water
Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.
GEORGE HERBERT

Built House Lawyer
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.
GEORGE HERBERT

Mother Nose Wipe
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king’s goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
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King Void Years
The wife is the key of the house.
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House Key Wife
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
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Beauty Flame Light
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig’s tail you can never make a good shaft.]
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Good Make Pig Shaft Tail
Everyone puts his fault on the Times.
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Everyone Fault Time
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
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First Fool Wedge

A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

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